Mike Borowski

Mike Borowski is a medically retired Army combat medic with 23 years of service, including a combat deployment to Iraq, and a high school Anatomy and Physics teacher at a high-need Career Technical district in Northeast Ohio — where he also wrote and published the textbooks for both courses. He runs "Bski's Classroom," a platform dedicated to cutting through political noise with data, history, and the kind of blunt honesty that comes from someone who has seen both war and the American classroom up close. X (Twitter): x.com/BskiMike22802 Substack: substack.com/@bskimike22802 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@BskiMike22802

The View From the Ivory Tower: Sunny Hostin’s Privilege Problem

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I want to start with a confession. I do not watch The View. I have a job, a family of six, a stack of Anatomy quizzes to grade, and generally better things to do with an hour of my life than listen to five women agree with each other very loudly. But every so often the internet drags a clip across my desk that I simply cannot ignore, and this one has EVERYTHING — hypocrisy, genealogy, railroad tracks, and a lecture on privilege delivered by a woman who apparently skipped the chapter on her own family history. So grab some coffee. This is a long one, and it is worth it.

Data Centers Are Destroying the Planet — Or Are They? (A Science Teacher Reads the Actual Numbers)

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For the past two years I have watched politicians, pundits, and people who clearly skipped statistics class weaponize the same recycled set of misleading numbers about data centers and water use. AOC brought a jar of cloudy well water to a congressional hearing and implied a nearby data center poisoned it. Spoiler: it was construction sediment. The same sediment you get when they dig up the road in front of your house. Same physics. Different agenda. But facts are inconvenient when you have a camera and a talking point.

Should Nikki Floris Be Tried? Let’s Skip the Word “Treason” and Talk About the Felonies

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“I’m basically running a shadow government across the FBI at this point.” That is a real, declassified text message, sent by a real, named federal employee — Nikki Floris (also rendered “Flores” in some captions), then Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division and, delightfully, the Bureau’s own designated election security lead for 2020. The colleague she sent it to did not respond with alarm. He responded with a smiley face and “you do what you have to do.” Hang in there.

Jim Crow 2.0: How the Minimum Wage Became the Democrat Party’s Favorite Racist law of the Left.

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Let me open with the sentence that is going to make several people very uncomfortable before I have even finished my coffee.
The minimum wage is a Jim Crow law. Not “Jim Crow adjacent.” Not “has some racist history if you squint.” An actual, documented, still-functioning mechanism for locking people out of the labor market and into government dependency — built by the same coalition, defended by the same party, and producing the same outcome it was engineered to produce a century ago.

The Grand Experiment: New York is Rerunning a 100-Year-Old Failure and Calling It Progress. And the Failure is the Feature.

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I am a science teacher. So let me start with the one word in this entire disaster that made the hair on my arms stand up.

Experiment.

The mayor of New York City stood in front of a cheering crowd, gestured at a plan to build government-owned grocery stores with taxpayer money, and said — I am paraphrasing, but only barely — may the most affordable grocery store win. He called it a grand experiment. He looked at eight and a half million people and told them it was ABOUT TIME to run one.

Wired to Look

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This is not a modesty lecture. This is biology, and biology does not assign blame, it assigns mechanisms. The mechanism in question is the male brain’s relationship to visual stimuli, and once you understand it, the case for single-sex fitness spaces stops sounding like religious prudishness and starts sounding like basic risk management.

RISE stands for Recovery, Independence, Skills, and Employment: A replacement for Welfare

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Dave and Sarah had committed the cardinal sin of being responsible adults. They owned a home. They had a car that was paid off. They had $3,200 in a savings account — money they’d been scraping together for years to have SOMETHING in case of emergency. And now the emergency was here, and the government said, “Sorry, you’re too rich for help.”

This is Part 2 of a 2-part analysis examining the phenomenon of Democratic Socialism

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This is the second part of a two-part analysis that examines a specific historical claim: that the decades-long push of Democratic Socialists of America inside the Democrat Party follows the same “boring from within” logic the Bolsheviks used against the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in 1917 — a small, disciplined vanguard using a broader coalition’s legitimacy and infrastructure to gain position, growing more candid about maximalist goals as it consolidates power, with no intention of remaining merely one faction among many.

TRUMP IS A CHINA AGENT? — Sir, Your Party Has Been SLEEPING With China

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I need you to do something before you read another word.

I need you to think about every time you have seen a Democrat politician, a cable news anchor, a blue-checkmark activist, or a college professor call a Republican a Nazi in the last eight years. Elon Musk waved at a crowd and three days of “expert Nazi imagery analysis” hit every network. JD Vance used an old computer game reference and people in the media spent forty-eight hours explaining why it was secret fascist code. They called Trump literally Hitler. They called his voters fascists. They called the MAGA hat a white supremacist symbol. They called a circle made with fingers a white power hand sign. They had a whole infrastructure — lists, watchdogs, funded organizations, congressional statements, nonprofit endowments in the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS — dedicated to finding Nazis on the right.

LBJ DIDN’T BUILD A GREAT SOCIETY. HE BUILT A TRAP. And the cruelest part? The data proving it was right in front of them the whole time.

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I am a science teacher. So before we do anything else, we are going to look at the actual data. Because the data DESTROYS the entire narrative.

Black poverty in America fell from 87 percent in 1940 to 47 percent in 1960. That is FORTY POINTS in twenty years. Before the Great Society. Before Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Before a single dollar of the $22 trillion the federal government has spent on poverty programs since 1965. The free market, economic growth, and an intact family culture did that — forty points — in two decades.